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A look at local missing persons cases still on the books

* Decemeber 1998: Police check between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury for Robert Lane, 45, and Glen Lane, 29. The uncle and nephew were travelling from Regina to New Brunswick to attend a family funeral. The pair last contacted relatives, by phone, in Sault Ste. Marie.

"They were seen in the Sault, we know they were there, and from there, they've disappeared off the face of the Earth," said Sgt. Tim Sheppard of Ontario Provincial Police.

* December 2001: Justin Pollari, 14, left his home in Hilton Beach late at night. The Grade 9 student at Central Algoma Secondary School has not been seen since. A Help Find Justin page, including 18 photos of Pollari, is on Facebook.

* July 2005: Dr. Ness Amano, a dentist from Marathon, Ont., takes off in a small Cessna from Sault Ste. Marie Airport.

He's not reported missing until more than a week later when he doesn't show up for work.

Searchers checked more than 30,000 square kilometres of terrain, but found no trace of Amano or his single-engine plane.

* November 2005: The damaged car of Stacy Dilenardi, 30, is found by a trapper in Duncan Township, just northeast of Sault Ste. Marie's city limits. He moved to the city from Sudbury three months earlier.

A second search in the spring does not find the missing man.

"We can't lose sight of the possibility that he walked out and he's somewhere else," said Const. Bill Mackan of Ontario Provincial Police in May 2006.

"We're looking for any evidence that he is still there and he's dead or that he walked out. So far we have found nothing at all to indicate, other than his car, that he was there. No shoes. No clothes. No personal belongings."

* May 2006: Tree planter Aju Iroaga, 26, of Scarborough goes missing after quitting his job. His work site was 70 kilometres north of White River. Police say he may have tried to walk to the community.